Abstract
We measured memory span for assembly instructions involving objects with handles oriented to the left or right side. Right-handed participants remembered more instructions when objects' handles were spatially congruent with the hand used in forthcoming assembly actions. No such affordance-based memory benefit was found for left-handed participants. These results are discussed in terms of motor simulation as an embodied rehearsal mechanism.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 199-206 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Experimental brain research |
Volume | 223 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2012 |
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Female
- Functional Laterality
- Hand/innervation
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Orientation/physiology
- Photic Stimulation
- Psychomotor Performance/physiology
- Visual Perception/physiology
- Young Adult